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Reach for the Sky

British Sky Broadcasting, under a new Murdoch, ramps up
subscriptions

IMAGINE A MEDIA CONGLOMERATE CONSISTING of a monopoly national satellite TV service and hundreds of information and entertainment channels even one for gambling. Imagine that there's room for major growth that it's the equivalent of 1985 America, with half the nation still stuck in the Dark Ages watching a few broadcast channels.

This takes very little imagination, actually, because such a media conglomerate exists, big as life and already making a profit, across the Atlantic Ocean in the form of British Sky Broadcasting,...